What did you do to your bike today?

Clov!s said:
Straight to the battery?
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Yeah - I did a relay on the CB400 and the Tuono, but I had heated grips on the CB400 (which I was forever leaving on) and the Tuono needs a fully charged battery to start.

If I manage to leave something on the VFR plugged in it shouldn't drain the battery too much/prevent it fromt starting. If it's an issue I'll wire in a relay for them, just couldn't be arsed this time round :D

The only other thing I'll be adding is a lead for some heated gloves come winter.
 
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TallPaul_S said:
Yeah - I did a relay on the CB400 and the Tuono, but I had heated grips on the CB400 (which I was forever leaving on) and the Tuono needs a fully charged battery to start.

If I manage to leave something on the VFR plugged in it shouldn't drain the battery too much/prevent it fromt starting. If it's an issue I'll wire in a relay for them, just couldn't be arsed this time round :D

The only other thing I'll be adding is a lead for some heated gloves come winter.
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The Rider 4XX mounts use power even when nothing is attached to it. It shouldn't be a problem but it would drain a battery if left over winter for example.
 
Kreeeee said:
The Rider 4XX mounts use power even when nothing is attached to it. It shouldn't be a problem but it would drain a battery if left over winter for example.
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I do leave the mount attached for a while at a time but the VFR will never get left not used for more than a few days. It'll be on for the 2 weeks of the trip but as long as I don't forget and leave my power bank charging while we're off having food or stopped for a while it'll be fine.
 
M7RR fitted to front this morning, Angels on the back are still good so I'll just run on mismatched for now. Can't really be bothered to put the wheel back on :P
 
Whoosh :p


But yes, I love storms too. When I grew up in Joburg we used to get proper doozies too, and very regularly. They'd go on for hours, lighting up the whole sky and then shaking the house to its foundations. Proper spectacular storms. In fact, I'm going to share some more boring stuff now, Joburg is actually in a bit of a valley and we lived in a suburb which was much higher. We lived on the 2nd floor of a block of flats and overlooked Joburg Central. Some of the stuff I saw was absolutely mindblowing. There's also a camping spot at Wagendrift Dam in South Africa where you can almost set your watch to a massive storm happening every night at 8pm. Probably the most vicious storms I've ever seen and we were in tents. The storms would last an hour or so and after you could hear every kid on the campsite crying :p
 
Was 4 when I left so unfortunately didn't really grow up there, but Dad was born and raised there (moved to UK when he was 40-ish) so grew up with all the South African-isms :D

I mostly miss the cheap boerewors, droewors and biltong :D
 
Some of this:

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